The Rise of the Dutch Republic and the Evolution of Cloth Industries

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  • オランダ共和国の成立と毛織物工業の展開
  • オランダ キョウワコク ノ セイリツ ト ケオリモノ コウギョウ ノ テンカイ

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The history of the Dutch Republic was closely connected with the evolution of cloth industries. The Dutch Republic emerged "like a comet" as the cloth industry began to develop and declined with its fall. When the northern part of the Netherland won independence from Spain at the end of the 16th century, the cloth industry consisted mainly of the New Drapery introduced by the refugees from Flanders and Brabant. The main products were says, bays, arras, fustian and so on, and their export markets were the South Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant. In England, too, in the first half of the 17th century, the New Drapery began to develop at the cost of the Old Drapery, and drove the Dutch products off the overseas markets. But the Dutch Republic did not throw in her lot with the New Drapery. In the Dutch Republic, on the contrary, in the second half of the 17th century the Old Drapery developed increasingly, taking the place of the stagnant Old Drapery in England. And it became the basis of the economic development of the Dutch Republic. In the course of the 18th century, however, the Dutch Old Drapery was replaced by the rural cloth industries of the surrounding areas.

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